Reviews

York Art Gallery

An £8m facelift has transformed the venue into one of the best museums Rebecca Atkinson has ever visited

Cosmonauts

Birth of the Space Age, Science Museum, London

Catalogue

The British Art Show 8

On my bookshelf

Worktown, by David Hall

Books

The Interpretation Matters Handbook: Artspeak Revisited Fight the forces of artspeak and do away with dumbing up, says Rebecca Mileham 

Richard Long: Time and Space

Arnolfini, Bristol

Made in Mansfield

Mansfield Museum, Nottinghamshire

Catalogue

Alison Hissey on the famous Chinese dissident artist’s political artworks

Web and mobile

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On my bookshelf

Simon Cane

Seven stories

The National Centre for Children’s Books, Newcastle upon Tyne

Catalogue

Matthew Darbyshire: An Exhibition for Modern Living